The latest attacks come after peace negotiations led by the UN reached an impasse last week with violent clashes reported nationwide .
Saturday's incident also renewed concerns about the increasing number of civilians - including many children - who have died in the conflict.
However, the coalition countered that airstrikes targeted weekend a "major training camp for the militia" - and resulted in the death of a rebel leader Houthi. He said Houthi recruitment of children in the conflict was to blame for the deaths.
"The aircraft bombed a training camp for the militia called the coup (Huda) in Saada," spokesman for the coalition Major Ahmed Asseri told CNN in a statement Sunday.
he did not specify which school the two attacked Saturday he was referring.
This "confirms the practice Houthis recruit and subjecting children to terror," continued Asseri.
According Asseri, Houthis regularly recruit children "and use them as scouts, guards, messengers and combatants" ultimately
The coalition "by subjecting them to injury and murder. "- Composed of several Arab countries - began a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 to prevent rebel Houthi allies in Iran and the forces loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen to take power.
'No way those were fighters "
However, the UNICEF representative in Yemen told CNN that the children were too young to be combatants.
"We had an audit team that went to the site and was there the day. We went to the hospital and we talked to parents. Many of these children were aged six, eight. There is no way that those were fighters, "Julien said Sunday Harneis UNICEF.
Ten children died and 28 others were wounded in the attack from a private school in Haydan district of Saada province, which occurred when children left school and were on the way back.
the children were aged between 8 and 15, according to official Twitter account Without borders Medecins.
another four children and three adults were killed in a coalition air strike on a school in the district of Razeh nearby.
"another 10,000 children will die "
Since the peace talks failed, Harneis said that the country has seen a surge in violence, crippling the country's infrastructure.
" the airspace at the airport has been closed for the last six days. No civilians or humanitarian flights were able to get in or out. the health system is on the brink of collapse. All in all, we have a terrible situation in Yemen, "he said.
" Today, money for health centers to run across the country is available. When we try to give money to our partners across the country, they can not take the bank's money. That means health services for vaccination, measles, polio, for routine vaccinations for treatment for things like malnutrition, it begins to break through the country, "added Harneis.
"We estimated that at least another more than 10,000 children die from preventable diseases that would not have happened if not the conflict."
conviction and appeal to the survey
Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack Monday and called for a swift investigation, its portfolio word.
, "noted the Secretary-General with dismay that civilians, including children, continue to bear the brunt of intensified fighting and military operations in Yemen," a statement from the office of the Secretary-General read.
"he urges all parties involved in the conflict to renew their commitment with his Special Envoy to Yemen to find a negotiated solution," he said.
But the UN itself came to criticism.
"the attack was a school, which is common and not the first time children and schools were attacked. the massacres against civilians occur while the UN silently watches ... do not stop crimes in Yemen, "Mohammed Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the Houthi rebels, told CNN Monday.
"[The] UN betrayed Yemeni children with his silence towards these crimes Saudis."
According to United Nations figures, the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for 60% of the 1,953 children registered as killed or maimed in the conflict in 2015.
Doctors without borders and UNICEF have also opposed the attacks.
Scandal on the UN blacklist
in June, Ban Ki-moon has revealed that he has received "undue pressure" from the coalition to remove it from the blacklist of groups does not respect children's rights in armed conflict.
A UN official told CNN that Saudi Arabia threatened to shoot hundreds of millions of dollars in financial contributions to humanitarian agencies of the UN and the causes if they are not removed from the blacklist.
The Saudi government has vigorously denied. U.N. the Saudi Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi dismissed the allegations as "rumors" circulated by people "trying to harm our reputation."
Ghazi Balkiz CNN reported Almasmar Hakim and Abu Dhabi; Artemis reported Moshtaghian Atlanta; Tiffany Ap wrote Hong Kong. Simon CNN Cullen in London contributed to this report.
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